… Background: Many speech and language therapists (SLTs) in the UK work with speech and
language therapy assistants, and the numbers of SLT assistants is expected to grow. There …

… This study presents the perspectives of teachers, speech and language therapists and
teaching assistants on involving children with severe learning and communication difficulties in …

… Objective This paper explores the impact and mechanisms for successful implementation
of a speech language pathology assistant (SLPA) role into a rehabilitation setting using a …

… with 23% of sessions being led by speech and language therapy assistants. In the UK,
speech and language therapists and assistants working for the NHS are paid according to the ‘…

… speech and language therapy assistant (SLTA) carried out language transcription using
language … out transcriptions on 17 language samples at two time periods. Reliability between a …

… of allied health assistant roles (hereafter referred to as assistants) into the speech-language …
increase in the utilisation of an assistant workforce in speech-language pathology in US, UK …

… services are the speech and language therapists. This … may be aided by speech and language
therapy assistants. … The further development of services to children with speech language …

… assistant may practise mobilization with the patient and the occupational therapy assistant
… to be context-specific, ie speech and language therapy was only evident in the stroke team. …

… out technical and repetitive tasks, the speechlanguage pathologist's time can then be freed
… of the speech and language therapy assistants and the speech and language therapists who …

… or speech and language therapy assistants. Currently the provision for such training is ad
hoc and there is no guarantee that assistants will have a good knowledge in this area. This, of …